Make status colors more prominent in MantisBT 2.0

Once upon a time, MantisBT used to create a colorful table with all your issues, using the status color as a background for the whole row. Since version 2.0, the status color has been moved to a small box in the status column, making it harder to spot the info you’re looking for at a glance.

I don’t like it, people I work with don’t like it… and if you’ve reached this page from a Google search, chances are you don’t like it either 🙂

HI Simone
Thank you very much for your reply.
yes i have downloaded the latest build 1.0.2 and yes i have copied it to the correct directory and the permission are fine but still no luck. Could it be that the other plugins i have are stopping yours from working. I have these installed
1)Avatars via Gravatar 2.3.1
2)Import/Export issues 2.3.1
3)Mantis Graphs 2.3.1
4)Mantis BT Core 2.3.1
5)Mantis BT Formatting 2.3.1

they all use MantisBT Dependencies 2.0.0 except the Formatting which uses the 2.1.0.

the plugin is so simple that there’s shouldn’t be any conflict with other plugins.

At the very least, you should see the plugin in the admin page (either as installed or among the available plugins). If you don’t see it there, I can only speculate that the files are not in the correct location (e.g. you should have /plugins/BetterStatusColors/BetterStatusColors.php), that the permissions are not correct or that the plugin is not the latest one (make sure that line 36 reads “$this->requires = array();”)

Hey there,
Thanks for the plugin, i’ve been looking a while to find it. Unfortunately, when I add some custom statuses values, the plugin doesn’t work anymore. Do you have any idea why this is happening ?

I’m using the plugin on a setup with custom statuses without any problem: what it does is simply move CSS classes around, so an extra status shouldn’t make a difference. Just make sure to use the latest version of the plugin from github if you’ve updated your mantis setup.